PLEASE READ THIS POLICY CAREFULLY AND IN ITS ENTIRETY. BY USING THE SITE AND/OR PROVIDING YOUR CONTACT INFORMATION TO USE SERVICES, YOU AGREE TO THE TERMS OF THIS POLICY.
Thank you for visiting www.DVVC.org and reviewing our Privacy Policy. DVVC applies leading privacy practices and adheres to data stewardship principles in managing our web user data. The data stewardship principles guiding our efforts include the following goals:
- Protecting web user privacy,
- Maintaining the confidentiality of web user data, and
- Ensuring appropriate levels of security for web user data
This policy describes how DVVC applies these principles to the handling of personal information you provide to us via DVVC.org web pages and forms.
We reserve the right to change this policy at any time, without notice. Any changes will be posted to this page. Your continued use of the site after the posting of changes constitutes your acceptance of those changes. To remain up to date with the terms of this Privacy Policy, we suggest you check here regularly.
- When you visit the website, we may collect the following data:
- Your IP address
- Your contact information including your name, home and/or business address, phone numbers, and email address
- Data profile regarding your online behavior on our website
We collect data for several reasons:
- To better understand your needs
- To improve our services and other offerings
- To send you notices and other applicable contact information
- To contact you to receive back information so that our offerings are more relevant and of interest to other member organizations.
- To customize our website according to the feedback and information we receive from our member organizations.
DVVC is committed to securing your data and keeping it confidential. We use commercially reasonable technologies and software, to safeguard the information we collect online. We limit the data collected to meet specific business needs and to protect your privacy. We may know what path(s) you took on our websites, but we don’t know who you are. However, due to the open nature of the Internet we cannot guarantee that communication between you and us, or between us and you, will be free from unauthorized access by third parties. No data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. Any information you provide is done at your own risk.
Likewise, by using our website you agree that you will not use or misuse any of its content in a manner which is not consistent with this privacy policy, and have a harmful effect on use or anyone else who has access to the website.
When you visit certain websites, they send a small piece of information called a “cookie” to your computer along with the web page. This is also true of www.DVVC.org If you agree to allow our website to use cookies, you also agree to allow use of the data it collects regarding your online behavior (analyze web traffic, web pages you spend the most time on, and websites you visit).
The data we collect by using cookies is used to customize our website to your needs. After we use the data for statistical analysis, the data is completely removed from our systems.
Please note that cookies don’t allow us to gain control of your computer in any way. They are solely used to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not so that we can provide a better experience for you.
If you want to disable cookies, you can do it by accessing the settings of your own internet browser.
www.DVVC.org provides access to other websites outside our control and jurisdiction. When you click on a link to these websites, you leave our website and your communications are no longer protected by our privacy policies. DVVC is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of other websites. We encourage users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy policies of any other website that collects personal information.
You may opt out of any future contacts from us at any time. You can do the following at any time by contacting us via the email address given on our site:
- Learn what personal information we have about you, if any;
- Change/correct any personal information we have about you;
- Request us to delete any personal information we have about you;
- Express any concern you have about our use of your personal information.
We will not sell, lease, or rent your personal information to any third party. We may share your information for the following reasons:
- To third parties to assist us in operating the site, conducting our business, or providing services to you.
- To law enforcement, government agencies, and other third parties, for complying with the law, enforcing our website policies, or protecting our or others’ right, property, or safety.
We both agree that once you have submitted any personal information to DVVC that we have no obligation to retain the information for any future activities and may discard it without your consent.
As DVVC is headquartered in the United States, we generally adhere to the privacy laws of the U.S. but do attempt to follow rules to protect the personal information of all our visitors. Our intention is always to follow U.S. and international laws concerning data privacy. This policy is intended to comply with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) of the European Union, the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), as well as any other privacy regulations which may be applicable.
The site is not intended for use by persons under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect information from persons under the age of 13 and if we learn that persons under the age of 13 have provided us with personal information, we will immediately delete such personal information.
The contact person at DVVC for all matters concerning privacy and data protection is:
Privacy Officer
If you have concerns or feel that we are not abiding by our policy, please contact us immediately at the email above.